The media watches as a U.S. brigade plans to enter Colombia’s borders. This brigade is new to the region, with Colombia being the first to accept its aid.

This month, amid the global disaster of the coronavirus pandemic, the political and military tension of the United States with Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has become more acute in the Caribbean Basin.

Trump has banned travel coming from Brazil due to the coronavirus situation.

The United States has raised sanctions against the Nicaraguan Head of the Army and Minister of Finance in retaliation for violations of human rights.

The Iranian Foreign Minister wrote to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, addressing movements by the United States in the Caribbean Sea.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the government of the United States has decided to extend the partial closure of the border with Mexico until June 22.

Though lower instances of homicides and robberies have been touted as a positive side effect of quarantine around the world, other forms of crime are adapting to and even growing under the same confinement.

On May 9th, Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump, primarily discussing the economic challenges that will present themselves after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Following a failed incursion into Venezuela, led by former members of the US military who sought to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump denied official involvement and stated that any US intervention in Venezuela would occur through a military “invasion.”

According to the Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración, new sanitation protocols have been applied to flights arriving in Guatemala with deportees from the United States.